If you landed on this post, you are probably searching for ideas of how to organize your homeschool room. I hope this post does not frustrate you, but inspires you to think outside the box. Here’s a look at our homeschool room, loosely defined.
I have bookshelves to hold all of our books, supplies, and manipulatives, but the hub of our homeschool day revolves around this little black tote. It’s the ultimate portable homeschool room!
The beauty of this repurposed scrapbook tote is that it can go anywhere because it has a telescoping handle and wheels. I load it up at the beginning of each week with almost everything we need to complete our lessons for the week. Stashed in various pockets are pens, pencils, crayons, glue, scissors, sunscreen, and insect repellant. All I need to add are additional manipulatives such as reading and math games.
At the beginning of the school day, we grab our water bottles and this tote and head out. The whole world is our homeschool room!
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Gail Nelson says
October 17, 2016 at 2:10 pmWe’re all over the place too – we’ve been known to pack our school books into our backpacks, jump on our bikes and head somewhere to work.
Jamie says
July 20, 2015 at 1:35 pmYep, same here. We do a little here, a little there. Seems like that’s become the case more so as the years go by. I like your learning spaces!
Crystal Wagner says
July 20, 2015 at 9:02 pmThanks!
Jessica says
April 13, 2015 at 11:42 amWhere did you get that math see-saw? What a great idea!
Crystal Wagner says
April 13, 2015 at 1:44 pmIt’s a number balance. We love it and it is so great for teaching so many math skills.
Heather H says
October 9, 2014 at 2:39 pmOh my, this is genius. I’m assembling to-go bags (that are never big enough) each and every time we leave the house while I have an old scrapbook travel tote just like this one collecting dust up in the closet holding scrapbooking materials that I never take out… I’m making a change STAT!
TriumphantLearning says
October 10, 2014 at 6:50 amThat’s why mine was repurposed. It was collecting dust after I had children too.
Kelly says
October 9, 2014 at 12:00 pmWe have a table in our bright front room where we do most things that need a hard surface. There’s a bright window where we can see the birds and other happenings! During nice weather, we sit out back at the picnic table. One of my favorite places is on the couch because it means we’re reading! Add a fire in the fire place and it’s even better. We also do lessons in the car, in the waiting room at the doctor, during nature walks, in the basement during severe weather, and anywhere else that life takes us.
Love the pictures of your girls – they’re getting so big! Is that your new home? It looks lovely, from what I can see!
TriumphantLearning says
October 9, 2014 at 1:47 pmYes, most of the pictures are from our new home. A few are from the old house. We were all over the place at the old house as well. The pictures just weren’t as recent.
Do you keep your books and supplies for the week in one central place?
Kelly says
October 9, 2014 at 3:46 pmFor the most part, yes. I keep all of our daily things in a basket – math books, reading instruction, BOC, poetry binder, etc. (I also have my own learning basket here, too, with my commonplace book, BOC, poetry memorization, etc.) These sit on top of a repurposed dresser that houses art paper, math manipulatives, and reading/math things we’re not using right now.
Next to that dresser is an upright cabinet that is a repurposed hotel cabinet (the kind that had the TV on top with doors that opened and three roll-out drawers). We installed a shelf in the top part. I keep all of my teacher resources in there and also books about books, my binders, etc. Below that shelf, I pulled all the books I hope we’ll read over the year, including literature, nature, history. The drawers are used for supplies, some math games, and our weekly math manipulative bucket.
If we have to leave the house, I will take several read-alouds and a few games and put them in a bag to-go.